MK
began to study under Albert Karl Günther
, Keeper of the Zoological Department at the British Museum
and specialist in the study of fish and reptiles.
Frank, Katherine. A Voyager Out: The Life of Mary Kingsley. Houghton Mifflin.
95-6
Occupation
Mary Kingsley
For Kingsley's voyage the following year on behalf of the British Museum
, Günther
commissioned her to collect freshwater fish from the region between the Niger and Congo rivers, and he arranged for her to...
Literary responses
Mary Kingsley
A reader wishing to assess the scientific value of Kingsley's collection needs to supplement her essay with Doctor Günther
's Report on a Collection of Reptiles and Fishes made by Miss M. H. Kingsley during...
Occupation
Louisa Anne Meredith
In 1891 LAM
took her fish paintings to Albert Charles Günther
, the British Museum
ichthyologist. He admired them, but to her annoyance proclaimed them unsound scientific records because, although beautiful and correct, for scientific...